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prive the Museum of his active participation in the further develop- 

 ment of the division. 



The title of the division of technology was, on March 1, 1912, 

 changed to mechanical technolog^^ and Mr. George C. Maynard, who 

 for nine years has been the assistant curator in charge, was advanced 

 to curator. On the same date Mr. Frederick L. Lewton was ap- 

 pointed curator of textiles, but with duties extending to other indus- 

 trial subjects, and under his direction certain of the extensive col- 

 lections which have been in storage for many years are being opened 

 up and reinstalled. Mr. Talbot F. Lane, aid in the division of 

 physical anthropology, resigned on October 12, 1911, and was suc- 

 ceeded, on March 2, 1912, by Mr. Riley D. Moore. Mr. Earle W. 

 Huckel was appointed aid in the division of graphic arts on January 

 2, 1912. 



Dr. J. N. Rose, associate curator of the division of plants, was 

 furloughed for one year beginning January 31, 1912, to enable him 

 to give his entire time to the study of Mexican plants as a Carnegie 

 Institution research student, and was designated an honorary asso- 

 ciate in botany. His duties in the division have been assumed by Mr. 

 William R. Maxon, assistant curator. The designation of Mr. J. C. 

 Crawford, of the division of insects, was changed from assistant 

 curator to associate curator on December 1, 1911. Dr. D. W. 

 Coquillett, custodian of the diptera, died on July 8, 1911, and on 

 September 1, 1911, this position was filled by the appointment of Mr. 

 Frederick Knab, previously custodian of the Culicida?. Mr. Clarence 

 R. Shoemaker was made probational aid in the division of marine 

 invertebrates on July 1, 1911. The following were designated as 

 temporary collaborators in zoology, namely, Mr. D. D. Streeter, for 

 two years, from April 1, 1912, and Mr. Copley Amory, jr., and Mr. 

 George Mixter, for one year each, from May 1, 1912. 



The title of the division of mineralogy was changed to mineralogy 

 and petrology on July 1, 1911*. Mr. James W. Gidley and Mr, 

 Charles W. Gilmore, custodians in the section of vertebrate paleon- 

 tology, were on July 20, 1911, promoted to the positions of assistant 

 curator of fossil mammals and assistant curator of fossil reptiles, 

 respectively, 



Mr, Frank Springer, of East Las Vegas, N, Mex., to whom the 

 Museum is heavily indebted for extensive gifts and loans of fossils 

 as well as for many other courtesies, and who is proposing to carry 

 on his scientific investigations hereafter at the National Museum, 

 was designated honorary associate in paleontology on December 

 15, 1911. 



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